9 days in the country

The kids and I went to my parents house for spring break. It was great! Nine days without internet, little tv time, and tons of outdoor fun. I'll start with the scary part of the trip. Jaden and I stumbled upon a snake hiding under a rock at the creek where we throw sticks for Duke. The snake freaked me out and I quickly ran to get Papa and the gun. After killing the snake, we discovered it was only a harmless rat snake, instead of a dangerous snake. If you know me very well, you know that I HATE snakes, HATE them. They FREAK ME OUT! I am not scared of spiders, or rats, or really anything else, but a snake will make me scream like a little girl and run for the hills. Just looking at this picture sorta freaks me out. So this snake never had a chance to survive once he was spotted by me. He had to die. Sorry snake.

I tried to get a picture of the boys frolicking in the absolutely gorgeous bluebonnets, but neither one would look at the camera.
On the farm, is this one area where sand runs down the hill when it rains and has formed what Jaden named "the biggest sand box ever"
We spent hours at the sand box, and the boys loved it

The longhorns are having calves and there are some cute ones

Cant resist the water

The cows coming to see if we have cubes to give them

The creek were we found the snake

This dirt is fun, I think I'll make a mud pie

Another attempt at a wildflower shot

Weekend Getaways

We have been going out of town every weekend so that our realtor could have Open Houses and we would not be in the way. The last weekend of Feb, the kids and I went to Leakey with my parents, and the last two weekends we have gone to the ranch. Well, actually just the little boys went to the ranch this past weekend to visit Grandma & Grandpa B. I am so glad that my babies get to spend so much time with their grandparents. We don't have any news on the house situation yet, we have had lots of interest, but no offers. Our time window on the new house is coming to end next weekend, so if we don't get an offer this week, we will have to back out of the new house. We'll see what happens.

We drove into Fredricksburg to stroll the streets and have some lunch

These boots were Grandma B's when she was little

Sharing some ice cream

Snow!

We had beautiful snow in Austin this week. It of course only lasted a day and a half, but that makes it even more special. Our trees in our backyard looked picture perfect.

The kids and I have a cold this week, so I didn't take them out to play in the snow. We just saw snow for two weeks at Christmas, so I didn't feel like they would be missing out to much if we skipped it this time. Our house is officially on the market and we have an offer on a house that is contingent upon our house selling, so it is a little stressful around here. We are having an open house this weekend, so Josh and I are going to tidy up and head to the ranch so we won't be in the way for that, and mainly so the kids can't mess up the house over and over again while we try to keep it show ready. Jaden likes to sing the clean up song, but he is not much of a cleaner, and Brody can destroy a room in 5 minutes, so it is best to just head out of town. We are sure that God has a plan for us, and we are hopeful that it includes moving into the new house. Keep your finger crossed for us! I have lots of blog updating to do, but not enough time to do it, so hopefully soon I will get to all those posts.

We've been busy

We sure have been busy lately. We have decided to put our house up for sell and look for a new house. This is a fun and scary process. We don't have our house on the market quite yet, but we will really soon. We have been busy painting, cleaning and decluttering our house. ( Why do we have soooo many toys? And where am I suppose to hide them?) We have also been busy looking for a new house. We have alot of things on our new house wish list so I am sure we will be house hunting for a while.

Yesterday we went to Connor's 3rd birthday party. It was Brody's first time at a bouncy house place, and he really enjoyed it.
Going down the baby slide

Going down the big boy slide

Meet my two friends fairy and strawberry shortcake

Bath time is so much fun now at our house. The boys play together and make each other laugh.

One of Brody's favorite toys in the house

I've been meaning to post this...

So my BF Jenn took me to a private performance of Colbie Calliat and Howie Day! It was AWESOME! and when I say AWESOME, I mean that it was one of the coolest events I have been too. We got to shake hands and take pictures and get autographs with both of them, and then they played music 4ft in front of us for a crowd of 20. I was a fan of both of them before we went, but after hearing them play and socializing with them some, now I am an even bigger fan. I have also transferred my love of Colbie to Jaden, who always asks me to play her music.

Family Photo Shoot

We had our Family Pictures taken this past weekend. They turned out really well, and I am happy with them. I do wish that Brody would have smiled in at least one, but oh well, I guess he wasn't in the mood for it, or maybe he didn't like the crazy camera lady. Maybe next time we will capture that adorable smile that melts my heart. I have posted all of the pictures to our picture site, www.thebiblerfamilyphotos.shutterfly.com

Happy Birthday Josh and Natalie

Our birthdays are four days apart, and Josh's mom birthday is the day after mine, and when you add that to Brody's birthday, we have alot of winter birthday celebrations going on. Even my truck turned 3 in December. :) For Josh's birthday, we had a nice relaxing day and went to Outback for dinner. It was yummy! For my birthday we went to Chili's for dinner, and watched poor UT lose the Chamionship. At least they didn't lose on Josh's birthday, it might have ruined his day. Oh well, maybe next year they will WIN!

Flowers from my kids at school, and Josh
Jaden could not wait to eat birthday cake! Thanks everyone for all of your birthday wishes and presents. We could not be more blessed! Love to you all!